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Patrick Stewart Says This Fellow Acting Legend Almost Convinced Him to Turn Down ‘Star Trek’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Long before Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart were co stars
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Speaker 2: in the X Men franchise, they were friends and associates
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Speaker 2: from the London theater scene, where both were successful. But
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Speaker 2: Ian's Hollywood career became established long before Patrick's, and when
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Speaker 2: Patrick was presented with his first substantial on screen acting
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Speaker 2: gig as Captain Picard in Star Trek Next Generation, Ian
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Speaker 2: instantly advised he passed. Patrick writes in his new memoir
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Speaker 2: Making It So. When I told him I was going
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Speaker 2: to sign the contract, he almost forcibly prevented me from
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Speaker 2: doing so. He said, you have too much important theater
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Speaker 2: work to do. You can't throw that away to do TV.
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Speaker 2: There are a few people whose counsel I trust more
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Speaker 2: than Ian's. But this time I felt theater would return
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Speaker 2: to my life whenever I was ready for it, whereas
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Speaker 2: a lead role in an American TV series might never
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Speaker 2: come again. So Patrick famously took the Star Trek gig,
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Speaker 2: and they became even closer on the set of X Men,
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Speaker 2: where Ian admitted more than once, Patrick made the right choice.
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Speaker 2: Patrick's book, Making It So
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Speaker 1: Is out now that's Direct from Hollywood